<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 June 2014 10:19, Reindl Harald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:h.reindl@thelounge.net" target="_blank">h.reindl@thelounge.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Am 20.06.2014 08:55, schrieb drago01:<br>
<div class="">> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Jared K. Smith<br>
> <<a href="mailto:jsmith@fedoraproject.org">jsmith@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Reindl Harald <<a href="mailto:h.reindl@thelounge.net">h.reindl@thelounge.net</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="">>> Whether you like it or not, one of the most common complaints about yum<br>
>> (especially from people coming from another package management system) is<br>
>> that it seems slow because of the necessity to download the metadata. The<br>
>> DNF developers -- in trying to address this common complaint -- had solved<br>
>> it by handling metadata in a different way. They've also added settings so<br>
>> that power users like you and I can tune it to better fit our particular<br>
>> needs.<br>
>><br>
>>> and *no* traffic is not cheap everywhere, by far not<br>
>><br>
>> I probably understand this better than a lot of people on this list, as I've<br>
>> been on a bandwidth-limited connection for the past nine years. Only in the<br>
>> past month have I been able to get high speed internet in my home that<br>
>> wasn't limited to a few gigabytes per month. So yes, I completely<br>
>> understand that traffic isn't cheap (or fast) everywhere.<br>
><br>
> It should be at least smart enough to not do it on mobile broadband<br>
> (like packagekit does)<br>
<br>
</div>how should it do that?<br>
<br>
it's imagination that any software knows anything about the internet connection<br>
even 11 years ago with a 56k modem that access was shared for my LAN and so<br>
the only thing the notebook knew about the inernet was "appears to be slow"<br>
<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">IIRC, NetworkManager's DBus API should be able to give you that information.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br>Mat Booth<br><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora</a>
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